2013/09/12 by C. Domingo-Pardo, C. Domingo‐Pardo, Domingo-Pardo, C. +145
Physics and Astronomy · #Nuclear Physics and Applications #Nuclear physics research studies #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #nucl-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.3047
Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VI, Lisbon 2013, Conference Proceedings
arxiv created 2013/09/13 · arxiv updated 2013/09/16
The rapid neutron nucleosynthesis process involves an enormous amount of very exotic neutron-rich nuclei, which represent a theoretical and experimental challenge. Two of the main decay properties that affect the final abundance distribution the most are half-lives and neutron branching ratios. Using fragmentation of a primary 238U beam at GSI we were able to measure such properties for several neutron-rich nuclei from 208Hg to 218Pb. This contribution provides a short update on the status of the data analysis of this experiment, together with a compilation of the latest results published in this mass region, both experimental and theoretical. The impact of the uncertainties connected with the beta-decay rates and with beta-delayed neutron emission is illustrated on the basis of r-process network calculations. In order to obtain a reasonable reproduction of the third r-process peak, it is expected that both half-lives and neutron branching ratios are substantially smaller, than those based on FRDM+QRPA, commonly used in r-process model calculations. Further measurements around N∼126 are required for a reliable modelling of the underlying nuclear structure, and for performing more realistic r-process abundance calculations.